Rumor Mill Churning

Any idea of what studio the rumour is based on?

Doesn't fit the narrative so people don't want to hear it - even if it's true.

The funny thing is that all of these games produced by acquired studios will end up on PC, showing the futility of purchasing a studio to prevent games from appearing on competitors' hardware. Sony has even purchased a studio solely for porting to PC.

Street Fighter was always meant for everyone just like Spider-Man, that was a really low move imo. Street Fighter 5 exclusivity felt like a middle finger. So I have absolutely ZERO sympathy for cows now MS is doing it.

But here's why Sony is the bigger "d*ck". Because at the end of the day, all Xbox games will be on the PC AND Xcloud with Gamepass. So the cows don't even need to buy the games, they can just buy Gamepass for a month or two. Sony is the one that straight with-holds games from entire communities.

Capcom owns Street Fighter and Square owns FF . They do what they please with their IPs. Blame them for accepting Sony's proposal and making them exclusive (As if MS hasnt done it way worse in the past...).

Sony owns the media rights for Spider-man. It funded Insomniac to make the game. How exactly is it unfair making the game exclusive? Bayonetta 2 and 3 being a Nintendo exclusive also p*sses me of but since Nintendo funded the games when no one else wanted to do it I dont see how is it unfair to have the game exclusive. IPs like Doom, TES and Fallout were already million seller IPs before MS buying Bethesda out, so its not like they were in trouble to get funded. When Activision made Spidey games they werent exactly best sellers.

MS bought successful IPs because they couldnt compete with their 1st party studios alone.

You know what they say... when you cant compete, buy the competition

See reply above

Its not the same thing, no matter how much you try to spin it. No one cared about Spider-man games when Activision owned the rights. Suddenly Sony funds a well received Spider-man game and they're the bad guys for making it exclusive even though a former 2nd party (now 1st party) sony developer made it

But yeah, continue to spin it to fit your narrative

Dude... Street Fighter V is on PC and it has been since launch. Your whole post wraps up with irony. Also it shows that you don't really have an interest in playing SFV.

Nah, Sony made the offer, they are to blame.

I never said it's unfair "the" Spider-Man game is exclusive, I said it's unfair the ip is exclusive in video games.

But Bethesda wasn't the competition. Which competition did they buy. :-S

And as I said, all Xbox games are available on the PC and streaming for a small Gamepass fee, while Sony locks games to one platform often. So tell me again how Sony aren't the bigger d*cks? It's you who is spinning this, as I said ZERO sympathy.

@HalcyonScarlet: Sony didn't buy the exclusive rights for SF5, they funded the game. Big difference. You're letting your emotions override facts.

No, I said Street FIghter was meant for "EVERYONE". It's not ironic, because I'm not denying MS is doing that to Playstation, I'm saying that's why I have zero sympathy.

Just like MS will fund all future Bethesda ips?

All of the games Sony paid for are available on PC. Even Sony's second party studios are now porting their games to PC. There is a difference that you are ignoring though. MS bought studios that had games in development for all platforms, where Sony paid for marketing, publishing costs, and had a deal from the ground up for individual games. It's still a similar business practice, but it's the reason Bethesda execs were apologizing and Capcom did not need to.

Besides all of this - with Fighting games, it didn't really matter because the largest tournaments in the world all used PS4 for years. It's only recently that some of them are online with PC.

Seriously. The "middle finger" he got for a game he doesn't have an interest in is lol

Is he, is that what he's doing. :-S

You just said, MS bought the studios, they'll be doing all those things for all their future games for years to come. And a lot of those games are in the early stages. Studios will always have games in development, so there is never a good time to buy them when they are doing nothing.

It's not about where the tournaments are it's who the game was available to.

And using your own argument then, all of Xbox games are on the PC for practically nothing on Gamepass, so nothing to be mad about right?

I'm talking about you. I'm pretty amused at the storm you worked up over SFV. It's meant for "everyone" 🤣
Lol the same could be said of any game. What does that even mean?

Clearly, the point was you didn't need to talk about me in the third person, right here bud.

You're being a hypocrite. Then MS is doing nothing wrong if all their games are available on the PC just like SF5 right? But you keep trying to make the same point backwards.

Where as my point is about not having sympathy for the cows now complaining about it.

I was being silly on the racing part. I just wish MS or someone buy Bioware out of EA.

The BioWare you knew and loved, has been dead for years. It's only a matter of time before EA dissolves them

I keep seeing the stories making the circles with people speculating something big. I think these sites just keep hyping it in hopes for clicks. I see EA, Take Two, Activision. None of those sound plausible to me. What I think might be more enlightening is the timing.

We know TGS 2021 is coming in a couple weeks so my guess if they'll announce anything then they'll be doing it there. And I'd assume if that's the venue then the company would be Japanese. So, going off that assumption, who could it be?

I'd want it to be Sega and they were rumored a while back but it's anybody guess. They were also rumored to just be pursuing a regional marketing deal so maybe it could just be that.

There was news earlier this year that Sega was splitting its gaming and amusement divisions causing others to speculate more of a potential buyout.

What if they bought the planet Mars.